Example sentences of "about [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 2 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 3 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 4 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 5 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 6 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 7 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 8 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 9 | We have only done them when we know we have not done them , because there is so much more to them ; and the more we think about them the more they have to say . |
| 10 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 11 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 12 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is one thing about me the murderer does n't know . |
| 14 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 15 | ‘ I was only thinking about you the other day , David , ’ said his grandmother , settling herself in a high-backed chair , her feet planted firmly on the floral Axminster carpet . |
| 16 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 17 | Matthew Prescott was a nice man , even though she could not imagine ever feeling about him the way she did — had — about Cameron . |
| 18 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 19 | About him the walls grew out of the dark in gradations of grey , paling and solidifying , put on bulk and proportion and form . |
| 20 | She would think about it-in the morning . |
| 21 | He had talked to Apthorp about her the previous afternoon , and it was clear she had exaggerated his anxiety about her health . |
| 22 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 23 | Though all about her the dancers were stopping , bowing and smiling , the atmosphere had heated up . |
| 24 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 25 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 26 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 27 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 28 | Also , in June 1940 the concept of airborne forces was , as far as the British Army was concerned , at its very inception and had about it the fearfulness of the unknown . |
| 29 | It is no good going to a dog training club once a week and forgetting about it the rest of the week . |
| 30 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |